(1) To evaluate quality of soft wheat breeding lines and cultivars from 19 State- and 10-15 private- breeding programs to ensure maintenance and/or improvement of milling and baking quality, and 

(2) To conduct research in the physics and chemistry of wheat and flour quality and to develop new or improved methods for measuring and predicting quality. Both missions require close cooperation with breeders and with the milling and baking industries. We strive to distribute resources equally between the evaluation and research programs.